| If you wanted someone to predict your future, what | | | | symptoms. These symptoms are elevated blood |
| kind of instrument do you think they would use? | | | | sugar ( ~105 to 125 fasting), low High-density |
| Based on movies and maybe a little experience with | | | | cholesterol or HDL (30%), and high BMI or Body Mass |
| "predictions" you think they must be a medium or | | | | Index(>25). |
| your banker. The medium might use Taro cards, | | | | If you have these signs I can predict you will be |
| crystals, a bag of bones or some other talisman. | | | | spending lots of time in a doctor's office getting |
| Your banker would use your bank statement. If I | | | | fixed, taking lots of medicine for preventable |
| predict your future I would use a tape measure. | | | | problems, and spending lots of money on bad health. |
| How could I predict your future with a tape | | | | It isn't fixed that this has to be. You can also change |
| measure? By measuring your waist, your true waist, | | | | the prediction. You are in control until your health |
| one inch above your umbilicus (belly button). If you | | | | begins to tumble. Even then, you can help it improve. |
| are a man and your waist is over 40" I predict you | | | | First set some SMARRT goals. Those are goals that |
| have metabolic syndrome. If you are a woman over | | | | are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, |
| 36" at the waist, the prediction is the same. | | | | Rewarded, Timed. A smart goal for losing weight |
| What is metabolic syndrome? It is a group of | | | | might be: I will lose 10% of my body weight over the |
| symptoms and signs that indicate the early onset of | | | | next 24 weeks through diet and exercise. You would |
| more serious disease. Metabolic syndrome is not a | | | | then need to specify the amount, type, and intensity |
| disease in itself. It is a syndrome or group of | | | | of the exercise. |